She is the beauty of a starlit night. Full of Grace and free of sin, she has been the devotion of kings and peasants alike, as well as the middle class of the 1950s. Men and women in all generations will call her blessed, because he who is mighty has done great things for her. To call her blessed is in accordance with scripture. To not do so makes you yet another anti-Christ, no matter how many times you rant, "Praise the Lord."

April 10, 2017

The Falsest of Prophets: In DC and at State Capitols

Those who call themselves Christian are crucifying Christ anew.

1) Reflect on the Republican 35 year old carrot-and-stick game by which activist
Republicans since Reagan promised to begin the procedure of enacting a pro-
life amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The infinitely empty promise was
designed to ensure the vast Catholic vote. Catholics keep falling for it.

In 34 years, there has been no effort to enact the necessary respect-life amend-
ment, in order undo the damage caused by the US Supreme Court in 1973. In
as much, token line-items written into long-winded congressional bills do not
suffice. Nor do State level regulations that keep abortion clinic licenses from
being issuied is the answer:

1] a Supreme Court case that will reverse Roe v. Wade.
2] an amendment to the United States Constitution.
3] a new set of government officials who reflect the mindsets of Thomas
More, Ambrose of Milan, and Mother Theresa of Calcutta. Therefore,
a new way of governing is needed. In historical terms, this usually in-
volves the forming of a new political party and/or government.

By the way, history does repeat itself, and it only does so because the
Eternal God is changeless. The Law of God never changes; nor does
God's way of responding to people who remain obstinate in the break-
ing of God's Law ... especially when the sins are legalized to the point
of mandating society to cooperate with such sins.

Incidentally, one of the things I learned from formally studying Thomistic Philo-
sophy is that the Law of God, the Will of God, and the Way of God are the same
thing. The Summa Theologica volumes were in the basement of the campus li-
brary. There were no distractions down there.

Despite 34 years of empty promises, politically operative American Catholics
continue to be gullible enough to keep chasing the carrot tied to the Republican
stick. Or is it that the politically active Catholics want the non-political Catho-
lics in America to remain gullible, so that the activists could keep procuring the
Bush-type of economic advantages which benefit a few and sabotages the rest?

Republican politicians are like the son who said that he would go into the field
and harvest it, yet never went. By their actions politically active Republicans
have proven that the respect for life was not their priority. The proof that the
Republican Party arranged an economy which makes it nearly impossible for
young couples to afford families and homelife, as did the young couples of the
50s, 60s, and 70s.

2) Despite the inflation rates of the Ford and Carter years, many Americans were
were living mercifully well. For example, in the Pittsburgh area, it was a com-
mon sight to see a very young steel worker driving either Z-28 or a Trans-Am.
As another example, during the 1970s a Fort Smith Arkansas seamstress would
make $14 an hour. Then came Reaganomics, the 10.8% unemployment rate, the
two-income family, and the latch key kid. Next came the exploitation of foreign
workers and outrages such as NAFTA. Going by memory, the wage in China
started at 24 cents an hour. In the Year 2010, the Cantonese wage was 75 cents
an hour.

3) Simply because the Democratic party supports two of the four sins which cry
to Heaven for vengeance (the Sin of Sodom & Willful Murder), it does NOT
automatically make the Republican Party holy. Similarly, the presence of So-
viet Communism in Europe didn't automatically render German Nazism holy.
Nor did it sanctify Mussolini's reign in an Italy where he would be executed
by firing-squad and then hung on display, upside down.

The Republican Party heavily supports one of the four which cry to Heaven for
vengeance --- Defraudment of Laborers of their Wages. In modern terminology,
it's known as Sweatshop Profiteering. Whatever you call it, it sends you to Hell.
In as much, Republicans have untold audacity in claiming that their party is the
moral majority party. Incidentally, Reagan increased the size of the federal gov-
ernment, and spent his way out of economic failure, thereby tripling the national
debt. He also signed into law 11 tax hikes. In addition, his true wife was Jane
Wyman. Theory has it that she left him because he was destroying lives in being
an accomplice to Joseph McCarthy. In addition, a former Soviet spy publicly
stated that there were NO Soviet spies in Hollywood, because Moscow was on-
ly interested in industrial, military, and technology information.

4) Impugning the Known Truth is the fourth sin which cries out to Heaven for Ven-
geance. Now, the Republicans in the U.S. Congress did what it took to sabotage
the U.S. economy as much as possible, in keeping the Bust Tax Cuts in tact and
in voting down the recent jobs bills. They then lied, in blaming their doing on
the present president.

In addition, their economic injustices have caused many to be overwhelmingly
burdened. Yet, they blamed the victims for the evils which the victims had to
endure. In as much, know that the great mooch and leech is the corporate CEO
who makes his windfall profit off of hard working sweatshop employees. It
is present corporate management, as well as the Mitt Romneys of this world
who have sucked the blood of sweatshop employees and other abused work-
ers throughout the world. And the pro-life world has no problem with en-
dorsing this individual who wrote-off 47% of America. Life does not come
from such a person. Remember, George Bush II claimed that he was pro-life.
Yet, he was a living hell.

Romney was among the most vehement pro-abortion candidates. He is only
singing the pro-life tune for votes, and this is deceitful. Keep in mind that an
election is NOT a contract. No political candidate is obliged to keep any of
his campaign promises. Reagan signed into California law an abortion bill
that was exploited to the deaths of many human lives. Yet, he was praised
and endorsed by the pro-life sector. Yet, elective abortion (aka abortion on
demand ) remained imbedded in America decades after Reagan left office.

The Republican Party is NOT the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
It's propagandists are filled with hatred, greed, and documented lies . It's the
party of the predatory George Bush and Dick Cheney who turned the United
States into a Paranoic Totalitarian Police State. It's the party of liars who
drained the taxpayer. This included the outright lies told about Iraq. This
involved the farcical presentation of Colin Powell and the wreckless en-
dangerment of all persons associated with former CIA agent Valery
Plame, simply to discredit Joe Wilson.

Incidentially, concerning those alledged decontamination trucks about which
Colin Powell spoke at the U.N. assembly building, they were nothing more
than ordinary fire trucks. In addition, concerning the alleged Niger document
which mentioned that Hussein was in the market for "yellow cake" uranium,
it was easily proven to have been forgery. For example, some of the dates on
the forged document dates didn't match the stated days of the week, and there
was the signature of a government official who was long since retired.

There were already inspections transpiring in Iraq. Bush's attack is known
as War of Aggression, in Nuremberg case law authority and international law.
Republicans aren't pro-life people trying to safeguard an imperiled America
which is already guarded by two massive oceans, one large gulf, and five seas
erroneously called "Great Lakes." They are predators.

The Catholic world could have launched its own political party, basing its
platform on natural law and the common good. It could have done soon with-
out ever mentioning Catholic. But, for some reason, a number of Catholics in
influence decided to leech off of the Republican circuit, thereby aligning them-
selves with the County Club and Industrial Robber Baron party which tortured
immigrant Catholic worker after immigrant Catholic worker, to the point of
triggering events such as the Homestead Riots.

If you are a Roman Catholic, chances are that Republicans made life a misery
for your grandparents and/or great grandparents and/or greater grandparents.
Yet, you insist on voting for the party which has been cheating foreign work-
ers by the million, which had an unfair advantage over Americans who want-
ed to start their own businesses, and which has made the Trade Balance Deficit
a perpetual part of America, along with the job losses that it automatically brings.

It took a lot of audacity and lack of conscience for the politician Ryan and the
propagandist Hannity to call themselves Catholic, as much as it took a lot of
audacity for Biden, Pelosi, and associates to call themselves the same. It was
equally audacious for world class molester, Marcial Maciel Degollado, to let
John Paul II publicly define him as the efficacious guide of youth. You are
still living out the Fatima, Akita, and Quito prophecies.

No triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary has occurred. Politically active
Catholics have only been contributing to the Reign of Satan. Look at the Bush
Years, as an example, as well as the Reagan Years. The next stage in history will
be the 21st Century version of the French Revolution. It will be God's way of re-
moving malignant cancer from seats of power, thereby removing the abusers of
power.

Pertinent Note:

The successors of the true apostles in America, namely the bishops in union with
the Holy See, do NOT concur with the Ryan vision of life and economics. As far
back as April 17th came the following from the US Conf. of Catholic Bishops:

WASHINGTON—As Congress began working on the FY 2013 budget and spending bills this week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) wrote several letters that repeated and reinforced the bishops’ ongoing call to create a “circle of protection” around poor and vulnerable people and pro-grams that meet their basic needs and protect their lives and dignity.

The bishops’ message calls on Congress and the Administration to protect essential help for poor families and vulnerable children and to put the poor first in budget priorities. The bishops’ letters oppose measures that reduce resources for essential safety net programs.

In the letters, Bishops Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, and Rich-ard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, chairmen of the Committees on Domestic Justice and Human Development and International Justice and Peace, re-spectively, urged Congress to resist proposed cuts in hunger and nutrition programs at home and abroad saying that “a just spending bill cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor & vulnerable persons.”

1. Every budget decision should be assessed by whether it protects or threat- ens human life and dignity.

2. A central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects “the least of these” (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.

3. Government and other institutions have a shared responsibility to promote the common good of all, especially that of the ordinary workers & families who struggle to live in dignity in difficult economic times…

Just solutions, however, must require shared sacrifice by all, including rais- ing adequate revenues, eliminating unnecessary military and other spend- ing, and fairly addressing the long-term costs of health insurance and re- tirement programs.

In April 16 and April 17 letters to the House Agriculture Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee addressing cuts required by the budget resolution, Bishop Blaire said “The House-passed budget resolu- tion fails to meet these moral criteria.” Bishop Blaire also wrote that cuts to nutrition programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assis- tance Program (SNAP- food stamps) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) will hurt hungry children, poor families, low-income workers and other vulnerable people.

Additionally, he wrote that if cuts to the federal budget need to be made, savings should first be found in programs that target more affluent and powerful interests.

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